I set the bar way too high for 2015 and it was unrealistic to expect myself to actually stick to such high standards. Aiming for the stars just to get to the other side of town. Progress is progress, but I fell way short of what was 'supposed' to be.

 

This year, the goal will simply be to build on that progress in a realistic fashion. I'm signed up for a semester course on advanced darkroom photography, and will certainly follow it with the final semester of advanced darkroom photography in the fall if able. I'll keep producing art in the way that best suits me, make efforts to be more social, to break out of my comfort zone somewhat more often and continue to experience the life I've wanted but ignored for the last decade. Major goals are to leave the country again for the first time since 2007; I want to visit some friends I've known for a decade in Norway and see the northern lights with my own eyes. Smaller goals; paying off more of my debt, getting my art into at least a handful of shows, and meeting some new friends because you can never have enough good friends.